Whalebone is not bone, it's baleen.
It's very much like fingernails, and made of about the same stuff.
Hey, Kayta, you volunteer up at SF Maritime Museum. Do y'all have any
displays on baleen up there? Are you demoing at Festival of the Sea
tomorrow?
Yes I was, and nice to see you there.
Yeah! Another person who uses 'defenestrate' in regular conversation!
Though maybe this is more common in historical circles...
Glenda.
- Original Message -
Greetings,
snip
I'm kind of
at my wits end over this and about ready to defenestrate the wretched
machine...
Cheers,
In a message dated 9/12/2005 9:58:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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I should add that I use a non-historically accurate (for MY time period)
cross-lacing, and not the spiral lacing, which I really do intend to try
at some point. Really. ;o)
If someone would
Don't pull the garment as it goes under the presser foot/ over the feed
dogs. It should help if there is no pressure on the piece. Also-- play with
a scrap and adjust the tension to accomodate the fabric.
Good luck !
Dame Catriona MacDuff
PS--One of the scrolls on my wall has defenestrate in
On 9/13/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/12/2005 9:58:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I should add that I use a non-historically accurate (for MY time period)
cross-lacing, and not the spiral lacing, which I really do intend to
In a message dated 9/12/2005 9:58:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I should add that I use a non-historically accurate (for MY time period)
cross-lacing, and not the spiral lacing, which I really do intend to try
at some point. Really. ;o)
If someone would just
On this subject of lacing corsets,there seems to be a myth out there that
you could identify a 'loose woman' by the way her corset or stays were tied.
It would seem to me that tying up or down might have indicated class,
maternity or economic status and not just sexual proclivity. Any thoughts
or
I noticed at Pennsic
that one bookseller, Poison Pen, I think, had digitized and copied
McClintock onto CD.
See http://www.scotpress.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=93
also available at
http://giftshop.scottishtartans.org/books.htm
Glenn McDavid
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[EMAIL
The spiral lacing or the cross lacing? The cross-lacing's just what I do
on my tennie shoes. ;o)
I found info about spiral lacing on the internet, on the following
website, although the internal links to the spiral lacing section don't
seem to be working:
A really interesting page on lacing... it's really about *shoes* but has
some nifty decorative lacing techniques:
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm
almost none of these techniques are appropriate to historical costuming,
though :(
-Irmgart
On 9/13/05, Charlotte Johnson [EMAIL
At 14:50 13/09/2005, you wrote:
In a message dated 9/13/2005 9:39:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm curious, when you're lacing clothing --corsets, bodices, gowns,
vests, whatever -- do you tie at the top or at the bottom?
When I used to work in the theatre it
In a message dated 9/13/2005 10:53:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I used to work in the theatre it was considered bad luck to
fasten any upper body garment from the top to the bottom. You always
had to fasten it from bottom to top, so that the
14th 15th century illuminations of
1. V. Mary when pregnant and
2. several pictures of adulterous women all show
looseness in the lacing and the end of the lace
hanging down.
And I believe the night scene in Rene d'Anjou's Book
of Love, where the allegorical women got soaked
stripped down a
Some of you may remember that I have been asked to play Queen Elizabeth
at the Stronghold Olde English Faire for the last few years. For last
year, I decided to make myself a new purple dress as Americans get
confused if the queen isn't wearing purple. Anyway, I started a dress
diary on it last
Karen R Bergquist wrote:
That has now been remedied! The complete QE2 Dress Diary is now up on my
web site. I've included a fairly detailed explanation on cartridge
pleating so there's some education to be had as well.
http://seamstrix.com/The%20QE%202.htm
It looks great! I love the
Yes, very nicely done and love the Cathair stamp of approval comment!
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I would like your expert opinions on what the official difference is between
trousers and leggings or hose. Is it just that trousers aren't as fitted in
the legs? Or are trousers one piece while leggings are two?
Tea Rose
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When I worked for the local Shakespeare festival, we had an excellent
British actress in the company who was serious about a number of silly , yet
traditional theatre superstitions. I used to torment her, putting shoes on the
counter instead of the floor,
Hadn't
Thank you! I never understood this, until now!
Pam Dotson
Everett, WA USA
If someone would just explain exactly how to do this
Like this?
http://homepage.mac.com/festive_attyre/research/lacing/lacing.html
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Tired of
At 03:37 PM 9/13/2005, you wrote:
I would like your expert opinions on what the official difference
is between trousers and leggings or hose. Is it just that trousers
aren't as fitted in the legs? Or are trousers one piece while
leggings are two?
Tea Rose
Leggings (or hose) are just that,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I worked for the local Shakespeare festival, we had an excellent
British actress in the company who was serious about a number of silly , yet
traditional theatre superstitions. I used to torment her, putting shoes on
the
counter instead of the floor...
A
I've been buying crochet items from china-usa on ebay, and I love their
quality and service. However, their main colors are white, natural
off-white, and sometimes ecru. And black, but I look awful in black.
And there's only so much white, off-white, and natural I want in my
wardrobe.
My
While working on Georgian period houses (here in Australia), renovators and
restorers have found shoes and boots tucked up into chimneys.
The explanation is that witches could detect shapes of people in houses,
particularly children (maybe witches have starship sensors on their brooms!),
and
www.ckrumlov.cz/uk/seznamy/t_obrzam.htm
Stumbled across this site while looking for something else. Appears to
be a Czechoslovakian castle site with the most amazing collections of
photos. Photos of the castle in excruciating detail, photos of the 17th
century theatre and some extant
Very pretty skirt. The natural color (a light tan/ecru) in cotton
is dyed; most cotton is naturally white. Have you considered just
wearing the skirt over a colored petticoat?
I would not be too worried about the durability of the crochet
work. I'd put it in a lingerie bag to prevent
True, and the white is probably bleached. I think cotton is not
naturally bright white. Yes, I've considered wearing the skirt over a
colored petticoat, I just have a hankering for a colored one too.
Thanks,
Fran
Joan Jurancich wrote:
Very pretty skirt. The natural color (a light
Actually in the 16th century, the term hose is often used to mean
forked truncated garments that we would today call trousers. There are a
hole body of them referred to as trunk hose. I am not aware of the word
trousers being used at all in that period. In the period I work in (18th
I wonder if the green thread is related to the old use of green as the color of
mourning (long before black)... because green grass grows on the grave. Gytha
Chris Laning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I worked for the local Shakespeare festival, we had an excellent
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